With sunshine peeking through the clouds onto a crowded street festival at a Baptist church in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, Roger L. Green worked the crowd in typical campaign mode. He shook hands, slapped backs and spoke with nearly everyone along the...

Former Assemblywoman Gloria Davis, a 22-year incumbent from the Bronx who pleaded guilty to bribery charges this year, was sentenced yesterday to 90 days in jail after expressing regret for her actions. ''We sometimes do things without thinking,''...

A vehicle provided to Assemblyman Roger L. Green for his personal use was a gray Plymouth Voyager minivan with tinted windows, but the perks from a private prison company called Correctional Services Corporation did not end there, according to...

A month ago, when Gloria Davis resigned from her seat in the State Assembly and pleaded guilty to bribery charges, Democratic officials in the Bronx widely assumed that the party would nominate one of the assemblywoman's chief aides, Claudia Nisbett,...

Former Assemblywoman Gloria Davis, who pleaded guilty to accepting bribes earlier this month, received thousands of dollars in reimbursements for travel to the capital during a period when she said she was accepting free transportation from a state...

A private prison company at the center of state inquiries into influence peddling in Albany has a checkered history in metropolitan New York, having been the subject of two federal investigations. Prosecutors in Manhattan and the lobbying...

After a Bronx assemblywoman's recent admission of taking bribes, prosecutors in Manhattan are looking into whether some lobbyists have failed to follow state laws in their efforts to curry favor with legislators, a senior law enforcement official...

There's nothing like a couple of scandals to get a legislative session off to a good start. As New York's lawmakers return -- ever so slowly -- to doing the state's business in Albany, they should take heed of the following events: A powerful...

The recent resignations of two members of the State Assembly have left two Democratic seats open, and in both cases the successors have been all but selected, according to politicians in the two boroughs. One seat is in the Bronx, where...